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Social media users report Netflix outage during 'Stranger Things' premiere

A surge of nearly 14,000 outage reports overwhelmed Netflix briefly as fans worldwide streamed the first four episodes of Stranger Things Season 5, causing a short service disruption.

  • Users began reporting issues with Netflix around 7:40 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday, according to DownDetector.com, as the latest season of 'Stranger Things' was set to premiere at 8 p.m.
  • Netflix said it would release the first four episodes of the 'Stranger Things' fifth season on Wednesday, with three more episodes on Dec. 25 and the final episode on Dec. 31.
  • Some viewers took to social media to complain about Netflix crashing or freezing during the 'Stranger Things' premiere, but the issues appeared to be short-lived.
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Millions of spectators were looking forward to the final season of "Stranger Things". But only shortly after the series started Netflix was down.

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Millions of spectators were looking forward to the final season of "Stranger Things". But only shortly after the series started Netflix was down.

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The opening of the fifth and final season of Stranger Things came with an unexpected phenomenon: the momentary collapse of Netflix's service, just at the moment when the first episodes were projected globally.The incident, recorded on Wednesday at around 7:00 p.m. (central Mexico time), left thousands of users in front of an error message that quickly went viral on social networks.For about three minutes, Netflix's platform remained inactive and…

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Netflix experienced technical problems on Wednesday after the arrival of the first episodes of the highly anticipated fifth season of Stranger Things.

·Montreal, Canada
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hype.my broke the news in on Wednesday, November 26, 2025.
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